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title: "Year 2 - Maths and Measure"
url: "https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2024-03-13-14-09-39-year-2-maths-and-measure"
school: "Brookside Primary School"
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# Year 2 - Maths and Measure

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/images/blog/IMG_1454.JPG)   13 March 2024   [Mrs Lomas](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/author/SharonLomas)   [Year 2](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/category/year-2)

Year 2 have been exploring the language of measure and comparing different lengths.  They have then used a standard measure (ruler) to draw lines of varying lengths.

Knowledge:

Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers.

Length/height in any direction (m/cm).

Skills: to use a ruler correctly in order to record in centimetres.

Vocab: ruler, standard measure, centimetres, zero, length, compare

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